On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 2:21:32 PM UTC, Stan wrote:
>>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> A student of mine has been using SMC because the sage appliance in
>> virtualbox did not appear very useful with the jupyter notebook. Now that he
>> encountered a critical bug in SMC (reported offline), he is back with the
>> sage appliance in VB but it is truly a nightmare. The installation
>> instructions are still specific for sagews, not jupyter, but we at least
>> managed to change the working directory to something he can access. What we
>> haven't managed, is to get out of the kiosk mode in chrome. There is no
>> obvious possibility of opening several tabs, no address bar to get back to
>> the directory page and no back button. This means that every time he wants
>> to go back, e.g. after downloading the worksheet, he has to restart the
>> virtual machine! I don't understand why chrome was chosen instead of
>> firefox, and I have no idea why it is set up in kiosk mode. Is there any
>> sensible way to productively work with the sage appliance using the now
>> standard jupyter notebook?? I'm sorry if my frustration shows in these
>> lines, I probably should have asked earlier, but I am wondering a bit if
>> those that created the sage appliance actually use it themselves.
>
>
> I think you are right, there aren't any known to me Sage devs who develop on
> Windows...
>
> A better way to run Sage in a VM is via (host) network, so that you use the
> native web browser to access notebooks, while
> VM would be running a server. This is more or less clear how to set up for
> sagews; I don't know enough about jupyter
> to say how it can be done so that the web interface is not on localhost:8888
> (but it looks as it is doable).
sage -ipython notebook --no-browser --ip=0.0.0.0
-- William
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